Get ready for Hastings Book Festival
Hastings Book Festival opens on Friday 12 September and runs until Saturday 20 September with Nigel Planer taking the stage at The Observer Building. Erica Smith puts on her reading glasses.
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Hastings Garden Festival returns to the Museum
Hastings Botanic Garden Project brings their Garden Festival back to Hastings Museum & Art Gallery for the third year next Sunday (14 September). The event will be a FREE festival filled with family fun, kids’ activities – and food and music from Brazil – all inspired by the amazing botanic artist Marianne North, who was born in Hastings in 1830 and spent a year in Brazil. Erica Smith encourages you to visit Brazil from the comfort of your own local Museum.
September swim, surf and sail season at the Electric Palace
This September the Electric Palace is bringing you a wave of films that revel in the visual and visceral spectacle of water and swimming on the big screen! Co-curated with local beachside partners including Samphire Sauna and At Sea Studio, the cinema in Old Town will be showing new releases like Some Like it Classic and Wind, Tide and Oar alongside cult classic The Swimmer, says Annie Waite.
Andrew Hemsley writer and journalist talks about the writers that have influenced him
Andrew Hemsley, writer and journalist for the Hastings and St Leonards Observer, talks with HOT’s Chandra Masoliver about the writers who have influenced his own writing. This will be followed by a second article with his own writing and the blog he will launch.
Hastings man charged for holding sign referencing ‘Palestine Action’
The UK’s free speech crackdown continues as Israeli human rights organisations condemn Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza. HOT’s Erica Smith reports.
Visit a local Eco Home this month (for free)!
Local residents – including folk in Hastings & St Leonards – are opening their homes to public this September, so that people can view energy-saving improvements and renewables. Energise Sussex Coast’s Gabriel Carlyle explains what’s happening.
Hastings adds poetry to its cultural cornucopia
Hastings’ cultural reputation needs to be expanded to acknowledge its prominence as a town of poetry. A new anthology, to be launched during the rapidly approaching Hastings Book Festival, makes the case, as Ben Sumner eloquently argues.
Hastings Community of Sanctuary celebrates 10 years of supporting refugees
As Labour escalates its anti-migrant rhetoric and legislation in a bid to emulate Reform UK and the Conservatives, the voice of those seeking to understand and help refugees and asylum-seekers receives little attention. But it has not been stilled. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the movement that gave rise to Hastings Community of Sanctuary, a leading local vehicle for supporting those who come here needing our help, as the organisation’s Pal Luthra documents.
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